[plug] [OT] hotmail hostility

[Alex Polglaze]

We have had the same problem with AOL sending out the newsletter for 
Rotary. Any recipient that had an AOL address was rejected because they 
thought it was spam.

We contacted our ISP and they said that it was a common problem for AOL 
addresses and that despite trying several times, were unable to get AOL 
to accept e-mails from anyone other than AOL's select list.

Having said that we haven't noticed the problem with hotmail, although 
we haven't sent one out for a few weeks.

Alex


sol wrote:
> Sorry, this is an off-topic question, but if anyone is likely to know the 
> answer it is - ironically - you guys/gals :). Plus it could open up a 
> fabulous opportunity to bitch about Micro$loth.
> 
> An email sent via Mailman to a mailing list just got a reply from 
> postmaster at mail.hotmail.com saying:
> 
> "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> 
> Delivery to the following recipients failed."
> 
> It then listed a fairly long list (over 50 at least) of addresses which failed 
> to receive the mail. Further investigation about the error states that:
> Original-Recipient: 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822, dodo at hotmail.com
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> 
> This is repeated against the names of each recipient that did not receive 
> email.
> Has anyone had any similar problems with hotmail? Is it refusing to have these 
> posted because it thinks that it is spam? Has anyone heard anything about the 
> hotmail servers being tricksy lately?
> 
> Ta,
> sol
>